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The practice of protecting threatened wildlife and habitats, including species risk assessment, anti-poaching, and ecosystem preservation.
UT AgResearch and Tall Timbers report wild bobwhite coveys at the Ames center, where about 1,500 of more than 5,000 acres are under management. Managed ground is at most 30% of the total. The outcome reported so far is sightings.
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Curtin and Taronga researchers ran the first hearing tests on Australian sea lions and long-nosed fur seals and found both hear best near 3.2 kHz. Four zoo animals tested in air supplied the curves, so underwater hearing and the noise levels that cause harm are still unmeasured.
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WWF's Living Planet Report 2026 finds monitored wildlife populations have fallen 73% on average since 1970. The report's case that conservation can work leans on bluefin tuna back in UK waters, credited to quota cuts, size limits and protected spawning grounds.
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WWF's Living Planet Report finds a 73% average decline in monitored wildlife populations over 53 years, though about half are stable or growing. Green turtles are among them, after decades of protection in a species that takes 20 years to mature.
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Sumatran rhinos number fewer than 50, down from an estimated 300 in 1998, according to the International Rhino Foundation's 2026 State of the Rhino report. The Javan rhino is about as rare, so Indonesia's two species now come to roughly 100 animals between them.
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Earth Species Project and Elephant Voices researchers used machine learning on 902 Amboseli recordings and found rumbles converging within choruses. The matching showed up in particular social situations, a hint that the calls track what a family is doing.
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Remote cameras filmed Gabon's cave-dwelling dwarf crocodiles ambushing bats, a hunt ecologist Matt Shirley had not seen in about 15 years of studying them. Shot for a TV series, the footage is a first sighting that has yet to be turned into counts of strikes and catches.
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UCalgary researchers find under 300 wolverines in 81,800 square kilometres of Canadian mountains, sparsest where recreation and roads are densest. The finding gives land managers population-level grounds to weigh trail and ski access alongside road closures.
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Eight local experts told Bernhard Nocht Institute researchers of 39 resources, 35 of them plants, that Kenya's Mount Elgon elephants may use as medicine. The list comes from decades of the informants watching the animals, so each entry is a lead that field observation still has to test.
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Leopardus tilcayo of the Bolivian Yungas was counted inside Leopardus tigrinus until 38 sequenced genomes separated it. The living animal itself is known from two individuals, one of them a captive male.
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